fa تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Background:</strong> The stigma of mental disorder has destructive impacts on emotions, feelings,&nbsp;personal relationships, parenting, education, occupation, and house management of people with&nbsp;mental disorders. Understanding and awareness of the stigma consequences are important for&nbsp;the establishment and development of constructive relationships with people suffering from&nbsp;mental disorders as well as their care and treatment. This qualitative research aimed to explain the&nbsp;attitudes of people with mental disorder, the treatment team, and the patients&rsquo; families towards&nbsp;the consequences of stigma in the life of people with mental disorder.<br> <strong>Methods:</strong> This study was conducted using a qualitative approach and content analysis method.&nbsp;Sixteen people (patients with mental disorder, their family members, psychiatrist, psychiatric&nbsp;nurse, social worker, legal expert) were selected from 3 psychiatric centers in Tehran by using&nbsp;targeted sampling method and were interviewed using semi-structured interviews until the data&nbsp;were saturated.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> Content analysis of the interviews showed that people with mental disorder experience&nbsp;the consequences of stigma as fear of stigma, self-blame, searching for a cause for the disorder,&nbsp;denial, avoiding psychiatric treatment, rejection, discrimination, and relapse.<br> <strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings of this research can help the psychiatric team to make effective and&nbsp;targeted treatment decisions. Performing interventions to reduce stigma of mental disorder in&nbsp;society seems to be necessary.</p> Qualitative research, Social stigma, Person with mental disorder 189 196 http://jccnc.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-161-4&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Alireza Momeni 10031947532846003314 10031947532846003314 No Razi Educational Treatment Psychotherapy Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Soroor Parvizy s_parvizy@iums.ac.ir 10031947532846003315 10031947532846003315 Yes Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.